 | 1846 - 436 pages
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy strobe ! Let not ambition mock their useful... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 1 Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1847 - 140 pages
...Elegy, " which I hope all of you have read, has summed up such a life in a few lines, where he says, " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...smile The short and simple annals of the poor." The world may never even hear of their names ; yet they have done their day's work, their duty to their... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 104 ELEGY. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Timothy Dwight Sprague - 1847 - 408 pages
...but now there is a fresh grave beside him, and we miss another sun-burned brow and stalwart form ; " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!" But now they are laid cold — powerless — silent, and the farm is left to the old mother and her... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure f Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; 25 No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! 30 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 374 pages
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, 9. The boast of heraldry," the pomp of power, And all... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run. to lisp their sire's return, Or climb hia knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did...stroke . Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 
